The Pirate Bay: the king of torrent trackers. How-to-use guide

In spite of various torrent alternatives, The Pirate Bay is really believed the most well-known and ultra-popular torrent website around the global network. With all the skeptical discussions and several shutdowns around this index of torrent content, TPB has ‘’survived’’ and functions in numerous world countries, though in some countries the access is actively blocked or limited.

If you are interested in it, keep on reading and you will know only up-to-date and hot info about TPB, a ‘’torrent giant’’ for the current year. In case you a newcomer in the world of torrent tracker and clients, follow the link and read our guide for torrent beginners.

How The Pirate Bay was launched: brief review

The Pirate Bay has been created by a Swedish policy institute in 2003 and aimed at sharing music, video and other digital content. Six years later, the website establishers were accused of promoting copyright violation and sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment, in addition to paying a fine. The arrest of TPB establisher caused its blocking in many countries by Internet Service Providers. Nevertheless, the access to TPB was possible via proxy servers or Virtual Private Networks.

By the year of 2015, the arrested establishers have been released, but The Pirate Bay has become the main platform for the discussions of torrent legality and copyright infringement. TPB has been imposed to a few shutdowns and altering of web-addresses in order to keep on functioning.

After the first legal proceedings against The Pirate Bay in 2009, several more followed and certain police raids took place.

Where is The Pirate Bay available? Where is it blocked?

As it was mentioned above, The Pirate Bay has sparkled a lot of rather skeptical issues, such as copyright infringement and file-sharing legal aspects. As a result anti-piracy movement was launched and TPB has become the central character in it.

Many countries have been locked access to The Pirate Bay. What are they? Here you can find a full list of the countries and regions where TPB is unavailable.

All in all, there are 28 states from different continents that fully or partially restrict visiting The Pirate Bay (TPB’s URL is blocked there):

A Guide to The Pirate Bay: what you can do on TPBAs you can see the Pirate Bay is mostly not accessible in Europe and Asia, whereas in North America and Africa it is easily available for users. Though, it is worth mentioning that in plenty of countries from the list above, TPB may be opened through some special censorship and geo-restrictions bypassing tools, among them are Russia, Australia, India, Argentina and a few European countries (Italy, the UK and others). As far as Asian states are concerned, among which there are China, Qatar and UAE, one is hardly able to access it, even via circumventing instruments.

In case you have never visited The Pirate Bay website, this part of the article would be exceptionally beneficial for you.

When you enter TPB’s site, the first thing you will notice is the search engine that is offered for users to find necessary content for torrenting.

How to search for the content on The Pirate Bay?

You are able to type in the title or the key words from it in the ‘’Pirate search’’. The users may filter the search by ticking the sort of content needed. One may find music and video content, apps, games and porn content. There is another option of searching for the content is not included in one of those categories.

You can also search for torrents in another way:

Click ‘’Browse Torrents’’, and you’ll get onto the next page where you will manage to browse them on your own in various extended categories, you have also the opportunity to take use of the ‘’Pirate search’’ here as well.

In case you are interested what content has been torrented for the recent 48 hours, you have such a chance to scan them by going to ‘’Recent Torrents’’ section where you can easily browse them. You will be able to now the title of the file, its category, the date of uploading and who performed it, if you wondered.

A separate section of The Pirate Bay is devoted to TV shows by visiting of which one is able to a necessary show or an episode for downloading. It can be achieved either with the help of the search or selecting it from the content list.

Music lovers can find their favourite tracks as the content is classified according to the genres and the time it was released and popular. Moreover, the genres are grouped in the alphabetical way which makes the search process dead easy.

The last main section on TPB website is Top 100 which represents the rating of uploaded content for the latest 48 hours. It can be viewed either by categories (only audio or games, for instance) or the total top 100.

How safe is to torrent on The Pirate Bay and the ways to protect yourself

The issue of safe file-sharing on torrent trackers is under great discussion at present. Taking into account all the risks connected with torrenting, one is strongly recommended to take certain precautions to feel more or less protected within the file-sharing networks. Among the helpful tools and services would be anti-virus software and VPN services, for example. The latter one is commonly used as it makes the user not only private and anonymous online, but also encrypts the traffic passed via the web.

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